Installable search engine package for file search [closed]

Question

Currently there exist package like gonzui (example of the implementation here) for doing source code search.

Is there a similar package that does the same thing except for simple file search.

Basically I have two list of files for file type A and file type B. When the user type a word in the search box, all files (in "gz" format) with names match to the search term from type A and B will be displayed.

Is there any ready package that does that?

I am aware of CGI implementation via Perl. But it is difficult for me to have a simple and elegant interface/display in it with CGI.

Answer 1

We use Omnifind which works pretty well. You might also look into Nutch or Lucene.

Answer 2

Do you need it open-source and/or free? Do you need full unicode support?

Also do you want a search or an index? A search does not use any pre-computed information, for every search you have to porcess all the file data.

For an index you would have to pre-process / index the file data.

DTsearch is a commercial / not free index engine.

The fact that you mention a "database" would indicate to me that you are looking into an index.

There are hooks into the microsoft indexing service and you can also use MsSQL to index text data.